St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-12
THE LATEST NEWS.
Events of Importa nee at HON ,
ana Abroad.


Reading railroad ran into an open switch and
collided with a freight train at Excelsior, Pa
Both trains were wrecked and Conductor
Gensel and Fireman Booth were badly in
jured. The passengers were unhurt. The
accident was due to the negligence of a
brakeman.
A funeral near amore, o., the horses
attached to the EvuI,c ran away, smashed
the vehicle and the coffin and threw the
corpse into a ditch. Other teams then took
fright and general panic ensued. Women
tainted, men jumped from the carriages,
wagons were overturned. horses became en-
tangled in the general wreck and several per-
sons We're seriously injured. The Rev. Mr..
Howells, who was to have conducted the
funeral exercises, was fatally injured.
telegram from Springfield, Ill, says the
secretary of state has issued a license for the
Dubuque and Southeastern Railroad Com
pany to build a railroad from East Dubuque
to or near Savannah. The business office
will be in Chicago, and the capital stock
81, 100000.
1t was stated recently that a conference
was held between President Chandler, of the
Postal Telegraph Company, and Jay Gould,
at which the relations of the Mutual Union
and Postal Telegraph Companies were dis
cussed. President Chandler and the West
ern Union officials declined to make any
statement, and the latter disclaimed all
knowledge Of the conference. Although no
official statement could be obtained, parties
who were cOgnizant of the meeting and who
We're informed of the result said that the tele
graph war was settled and rates would be
advanced almost Immediately.
The collections of internal revenue during
the first quarter of the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1887, were S3l 1856, ,O66 being s., 461,-
162 more than the collections during the
same quarter of the last fiscal year. The
receipts from spirits were SIS, ,921, ,974, an
increase Of S7sS,772; from tobacco IS, 373,-
Ola, an increase of 1904 057; from fermented
liquors. Sc, S61 ,39S, an increase of S522, 367;
from miscellaneous sources, $45, GGS, a de-
crease Of $2,047
The comptroller of the currency has de-
cared dividend of ten per cent. in favor Of
the creditors of the Logan National Bank,
OF West Liberty,O making in all fifty per
SShl' oLl pIONtU, dLlUulllIIlS " NOO,~
sos. The bank failed in 1884.
Israel P Mayer. builder, of Lancaster, Pa,
has made an assignment His liabilities are
estimated at $4,000
The James L. Regan Company, of Chi
cago, have failed, with S125, 900 liabilities. 1t
is said their assets will much exceed that
sum.
A preliminary meeting of the creditors of
the suspended broker firm of Perkins, Du-
pee & Co. has been held in Boston. The
firms liabilities were reported to be 500, 70O
assets, 800, 800.
The centennial of the building Of the
Great Conewago Presbyterian Church, at
near Gettysburg, has been
celebrated. Addresses were made by Hon.
Edward Mcpherson, Revs. J. X. Demarest
and W. S. Vancleve, DR.. J. c. Felty and
others.
District Attorney MARITIME has presented
to the grand jury in New York the papees
in the criminal case for grand larceny
against Russell Sage and Jay Gould,
brought by the bondholders of the Kansas
Pacific Company. The grand jury returned
The documents to the district attorney for
1t is reported from Hunt, Oak, that
George Barney, Edward Loomis, William
Desartig, W. Duggins and F. E. Lump were
permitted by deputy United States mar
shall to 60 on the Winnebago reservation to
latch driftwood from the Missouri river. A
band of Indians came up and captured their
i've teams, fired upon the farmers, caught
and beat them, and then bound them hand
and-foot and took them to Fort Thompson,
where they are still in captivity.
A telegram from Albuquerque, n NJ,
'ays, in relation to the depredations of the
Apaches near Holbrook, that nearly every
'anchman has suffered more or less the loss
If cattle from these mara1ding bands. The
low movement of the United States troops
s of little, if any, assistance. The ranchers
ire very much incensed and threaten to take
he law into their own hands. They de-
nand that Governor Zulick's recommenda-
ion in his last message to Washington be |
ollowed and the obnoxious redskins be re-
moved to Florida. The Apaches are becom-
ng very annoying and hostilities are liable .
o break out at any time.
AS Superintendent Gales was passing
through the north sally port of the prison at .
Yuma, Ariz., recently, he was seized by
convict and marched out, followed by seven
'ther convicts. One of the convicts rushed
nto the office, wrenched open drawer and
ecured a pistol The superintendent called
lpon the guards to shoot the convict holding
lim. Riggs, life convict, secured the pis-
ol from the escaping convict, and killed the
onvict who held and was stabbing the su-
Two prisoners were killed and
hree wounded, one mortally. Superin-
endent Gales was badly wounded. There
we're no escapes.
At Elizabeth, N. j., John NJ. Jackson, one
# the Plainfield incendiaries, retracted and
'leaded guilty to three indictments, two of
which charge him alone with arson, while
he other jointly accuses him and Horace
nd Lewis Van Nest. He will be sentenced
oon, when it is expected he will tell the
Whole story of the incendiarism.
Owen Lanning, desperate and horse
hief attempted to escape from the peniten-
iary at Raleigh, N c.. recently and was
atally wounded by the guards. He died
oon after.